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A visit to the Meadow Mill "Senior Sculpt" class of fitness instructor Jon Kaplan, who specializes in training senior citizens.

Childhood lies:  Why did we tell them?  And what in the world made us think we could get away with them?  From the Vauxhall vaudeville variety program “LIARS,” we hear guilty grown-ups come clean about the whoppers they told when they were kids.

His music has been called ‘thinking man’s country,’ and for fifteen years he’s been the steady anchor of a band that’s always hovered just under the radar of widespread recognition.  Singer / songwriter Andrew Grimm is the founder and front-man of June Star, and Aaron Henkin invited him to the program to share a little music and conversation.

The Baltimore-based band, Matmos, has built a reputation for creating a vast array of weird and wonderful experimental music over the past two decades, and their latest project continues that tradition. The Signal’s Lisa Morgan brings us this profile.

The Signal’s Aaron Henkin recently hosted the first installment in a new, live, vaudeville-style variety-show called Vauxhall at The Creative Alliance’s Patterson Theater.  This debut production featured live music, sketch comedy, and experimental dance, among other things - all of it tied together into one theme:  LIARS.

The Stoop Storytelling Series recently hosted an evening titled, “Believe it or Not:  Stories about Finding and Losin

With his 35 years as an editorial cartoonist, Kevin Kal Kallaugher is a living testament to the resilience of the art form. His dual roles at the Economist magazine and at the Baltimore Sun give him an enormous breadth of material to work with each week, from geopolitical crises all over the globe to the latest shenanigans of local politicians. In short, no one is safe when Kal draws his pen.

It all started with a YouTube video.  One day, an American traveling in Sierra Leone West Africa happened across a blind musician on the street.  The man was playing an instrument called the kondi, and the American was intrigued.

We meet a man who grew up blind in a small village in Sierra Leone.  As a child, he taught himself how to play a rare instrument called the Kondi.  He adopted the name of his instrument, and we hear Sorie Kondi share his music and his story.

A woman tries to deal with a husband who’s somehow been possessed by the soul of Henry David Thoreau.  It’s a special radio adaptation from the short fiction collection, The Wild Flowers of Baltimore, by Rob Roensch.